travel, living locations

[wispfox]

I often wonder what it is that other people look for when traveling, beyond visiting specific people. Same as far as where people choose to live. So! I ask y'all what you think.

When you are traveling, especially if it involves returning to a place you've visited before, what makes your decision on where to go? I'd rather avoid answers which are specific to people instead of location, because people is already why I travel most of the time. I want other answers. I want to know where to go, why to go, and what to do when there. Outdoors and indoors, places to eat and places to visit, places to feed my mind, my ears, or my eyes. Sell your favorite places to visit to me!

Similarly, if you like where you live, or somewhere that you have lived in the past, why? If the answer is specific people, that's fine, but I want to know more than that. Is it access to specific social groups? Activities like museums or parks or forests? Safe neighborhoods? What?

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

travel: i like seeing places i've never seen. often for me, a draw will be something i've heard about but not seen: like Opus 40 in NYState (a rock quarry turned artwork).

when i have the desire to go back, it's usually because there's more that i want to explore. like Paris. i loved Paris. i want to go back because there's at least one park that i want to visit that i didn't before, and others that i want to revisit and spend more time at. and it's as big as NYC, and i need more than 5 days there to get enough of it.

home: i miss NYC because of the great huge mass of people there. not people that i know personally, but because there's so many different people there. i am a huge people-watcher, and NYC is the greatest city in the world for people watching. it's also got the greatest window shopping in the world. even when i don't have money, i can entertain myself by walking around, looking at the people and the stuff.

i miss New Orleans sometimes because it's so energetically whacked and strange. it's very invigorating.

i miss New Haven because of the cheap living and nifty art community and strange friends i had there.

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[jirikido.livejournal.com]

ohhhh yes, of course Bourbon Street is my most favorite single place in the whole world. I've had more weird and wonderful experiences there than anywhere else.